Designist Dream

“Go, get it yourself,” never sounded as good as when Lior and Tal from Chunt Designs told me that their ‘By the Book” night table will be available for purchase at this weekend’ s HaSalon home furnishings fair in Tel Aviv. Now in it’s second year, HaSalon - meaning the living room, parlor or sitting room - is a home design fair celebrating Israeli smaller studios and independent designers from the hardworking to the handcrafted. Some of the designers listed to present are so new, they don’t even come up (yet) on Google (imagine that) while others like Shahar Peleg and Ototo are more established and sold worldwide. The products range from lighting, clocks, to shelving and furniture and back to wall and table accessories. Incidentally, the top left looking trivets by Ototo caught my eye at the Designed in Israel exhibition a while back. The trivets double as napkin rings and look super cool as white porcelain jax - so they’re multitasking the aesthetic with the purposeful. And right on your dining room table. Cool.

HaSalon is open this Friday April 4th, 10am - 6pm, and Saturday April 5th, 10am through 9pm, at the Comfort Club, 13 Comfort Street in the Florentine neighborhood of Tel Aviv. For those of you abroad kicking yourself that you don’t live in Israel and therefore can’t share in the home design fun, have no fear, I shall take upon myself to bring you coverage of the best and brightest from the fair. That is, whatever I can manage to write down in between my shopping extravaganza!